Doug Boilesen, 2024

PhonoPosts are recordings made with the intention of mailing them. Described as an "early and more literal form of voicemail" phono-posts are being collected and archived at Princeton by Voice-O-Graph collector and Princeton University professor Thomas Levin. The 58th annual ARSC Conference held in St. Paul, MN was recapped by April Ledbetter and Dust-to-Digital in Substacks Dust to Digital May 25, 2024 with some highlights which included the Phono-Post display by Thomas Levin.

A portion of Thomas Levin’s collection of recorded messages on display at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum, Washington, D.C. (Courtesy The World of Dust-to-Digital, by April Ledbetter, May 28, 2024).